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you beat it with a brick and meat (plus one more meat for exploration).

colorfusion wrote:

Likely people who go out robbing for the experience of learning traps and getting ideas, or just enjoying the game, rather than trying to get money and build their own home.

As a basic check you should make sure your house can withstand at least $2000 worth of tools. If your wife can be killed with a meat and a club, and you don't want her to die, then you should improve her security.

The problem with this is that a bit bull costs $320 whereas a club to kill it costs $200.  It's not possible to use $2000 to make it cost more than that to get to your wife, let alone your safe.  You can be crafty and make it as hard as possible, but when the tools are cheaper than the defenses they can tear down, it's not plausible.

http://zippy.gfycat.com/SadKeyCockerspaniel.mp4

Obviously an experienced robber.
Came back after three scout runs with about 4000$ in tools.
Tried to get through my doggone family protection sphere.
After the video stops (for reasons of privacy), he explores for a bit to reach my actual vault, wastes his remaining tools, finally shoots the dog next to the shotgun only to still find his way blocked.
My House value was about 6000$.

His is now at about 4000$.

(Yeah, I am VERY protective of my family. My vault is reachable with tools and luck and experience, but I will gladly burn all excess cash I have to put more dogs and walls and pits between any robber and my wife'n'kids)

edit:spelling

edit 2: aaaaand the next guy came and wasted lots of tools in multiple runs, now sits at 2400$.
What makes my house so darn attractive?

How Do Cats Move? I know they stay away from you but i just want to know like exact. I know its probably been discussed but just wondering…
If someone could help please and thank you.

Yeah, I purposely kept all direct communication out of the game for some pretty obvious reasons.

It's not that I mind direct, "obscene" harassment so much, or that I want to protect "innocent" people from abuse, but that I feel like it would detract from the atmosphere and mystery of the game.  That's part of the reason why there are period-specific names assigned in the game instead of xxxOOO_*_*_L337_HANDLEZ_*_*_OOOxxx.

Did any of you ever play Journey?  Pretty amazing in terms of a very consistent and smooth multiplayer integration (so much so that it was hard to tell you were playing with another human---many people didn't even realize it).... BUT, they spoiled at the end when they gave you a list of PSN handles that you played with.  At least they had sense enough to keep those out of the game itself.

You know what I would like? A spray paint that you could use for tagging the house you're robbing, that would be cool.

Not until now!  I have like 40 forum posts a day to keep up with.... sorry!

Curtains are interesting.  Someone else proposed something like that a while back.  Though... I'm wondering what kind of interesting designs could be possible with curtains.  For a dog to come out, it has to see you first somewhere else (because the curtain blocks the dog from seeing you).  So what is the value of hiding the fact that a dog is back there and about to come out?  Or hiding what else might be back there?  Why would you want to do that?  Castledraft example, please (use a horizontal and vert wires in place of curtains, maybe, to demonstrate).

Also thought about a battery in the past.  As a way to "mess with" electronics beyond just snipping wires... actually powering them.  But this felt way over powered, because you could bypass some things directly.  Though maybe not.... even if you could bypass a trapdoor with a battery, people could "hide the wires" deep behind stuff and prevent you from applying the battery.  Just like they hide the wires to a door to prevent you from just snipping the wire to the door.

I'm thinking that a battery could only be attached directly to wires, right?  So more compact designs would also not be vulnerable to a battery being inserted.  Or maybe it could also be attached to electric floors?